Name: Dr. Arthur Brown
Codename: Shadow Chaser (Formally) Crypt Keeper
(Presently)
Age: 60
Hometown: Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Family: Claire Brown (wife; deceased)
Occupation: Division supervisor for Taylor Enterprises'
technology research department laboratory; vigilante.
Talents: Physician, specialist in micro-surgery,
inventor, tech genius, computer programmer,
and master investigative skills, sense of history, master of
the Shadow Art and hand to hand combat, security strategies,
scientist,. Brown
speaks English, Latin,
Japanese, French and Spanish.
History:
Arthur Brown is one of the brightness minds of our time.
As a young child, he mastered mathematical problems
at a secondary school level.
His parents enlisted
him in an advanced school for gifted children.
He graduated prior to his twelfth birthday.
By the time he turned 18, he had completed his
undergraduate degree
from M.I.T and had started to work on his theory of nano-technology.
He attended Yale University to obtain his medical
degree. While there,
he met a young
business and computer science major, Alexander Taylor.
The two formed a life-long friendship.
Brown returned to Toronto and reunited with the woman
he
had been in love with since his childhood.
Claire Chevalier exhibited the beauty of angel and
the innocence of a child.
Even though he had seen very little of her
when he was going to the private schools, Brown remained in
love with her with all his heart.
At the age of 20, they married and he began his
internship at St.
Michael's Hospital.
Brown's skills were in high demand, but he had always
planned to start his own business.
Three year later, his dream came true.
Brown
Corp. became a recognized leader in the burgeoning field of
electronics, at one point surpassing the revenue of Taylor
Enterprises' technology wing.
But his
personal dreams would come to an abrupt end.
One evening, when he and his wife were walking home through
one of Toronto's busiest parks they were attacked by thugs.
Brown did his utmost to defend his
wife, but without any formal training in self-defense, the
overpowering thugs nearly killed him.
By the time they ended the assault, Claire had been
severely
beaten. He rushed
her to hospital, but she would not recover.
The police eventually arrested the perpetrators, but
Claire’s justice would be denied.
Bribery,
threats and extortion would influence the outcome.
When the case was dismissed and the thugs were free,
Brown was outraged, swearing that he would get even
with the attackers.
Brown studied various forms of self-defense, but he needed
more. He gained
knowledge of an ancient art that would transform him into
the ultimate weapon
and the name of powerful master, a mentor.
He travelled to Japan to meet Makoto Tanaka and
begged for training in the Shadow Art.
Tanaka, at first, refused
until Brown saved his granddaughter’s life; he owed the
young doctor a life debt.
Brown spent four years in Japan, learning to control
his anger and using his
newfound mental and physical strength to train his body and
mind.
Upon returning to Canada, he created the Mark I combat suit
and the Shadow Chaser was born.
Brown found the ones responsible for Claire’s death,
demonstrating the thugs’ involvement in the killing and
exposing that evidence had been tampered with
during the trial.
But Shadow Chaser did not stop there.
He spent a decade fighting evil as the ghost of
justice.
However, in 1987, he fashioned the fedora and cape for the last time, after suffering a career ending
injury while up against Antonio Stavros.
Now, Brown is the Crypt Keeper of the Shadow Crypt
and mentors
Kevin as he becomes the new Shadow Chaser.